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The current regime tempts greenhouse gas emitters to buy their way out of their obligations rather than taking genuine steps to reduce their carbon...
We need to stop approving new gas and coal export projects, scrap our subsidies and invest heavily in decarbonising our energy and households.
Younger workers, in particular, are likely to anticipate technological changes to industries and steer clear of them, exacerbating the profession’s...
A creeping private equity takeover offer and another painful update leave the company’s long-suffering shareholders begging for the misery to end.
We need to close loopholes used by politicians to get around donation guidelines.
The Australian economy has been too reliant on the easy money gains from housing, so a rebalancing could reallocate labour into more productive areas.
The Sydney Sheraton’s ballroom was packed to hear Michele Bullock’s Anika Foundation address. But try as she might, she could deliver only a...
The prime minister may well attend “lots of dinners” – but the law needs to give us confidence he’s there for ideas, not money.
We should be wary of unions that set the terms for the construction industry given the experiences with the CFMEU.
Jess Wilson needs to rise above small-target electioneering and win a mandate to be tough and decisive in repairing the catastrophic state of the...
The world’s most powerful military is confronting a reality that should concern every Western ally.
Jacinta Allan’s defiance on the leadership stakes could confirm why many MPs moved against her – she is willing to blow up the party to save her...
Requiring tech giants to fund clean electricity will unlock vital long-term capital for Australia’s grid transformation.
Exemption of major exports and renewed market certainty mean local business can thrive despite Washington’s new supply chain penalties.
A leadership spill in Melbourne is purely cosmetic without deep economic reform to dismantle union dominance and reckless spending.
Almost two-thirds of white-collar workers regularly yearn for their old working life, according to consultancy Adaptavist.
Increasing the rate and broadening the base would open up opportunities for broader tax reform, including addressing our over-reliance on income...
Australia is groaning under the burden of regulation and setting up yet another legal bureaucracy will only deepen the nation’s productivity hole.
It is bizarre that while the politics of agriculture has focused on taxes, the actual business is threatened by a phenomenon that bloggers still call...
It’s surely of concern that an aspiring director remains defensive about legitimate media scrutiny of company decision-making, which is part of...
Newly installed leader Andy Burnham has made a good start with voters. But he is yet to make any tough decisions.
Novak Djokovic is the latest of many athletic recruits to financial services, but their real value to the company may be surprising.
Just as the USSR sought to infiltrate Hollywood filmmaking, China is using social media today to harm American political cohesion.
This is 2026 Australia, a country suddenly rife with rampant, vicious discord. It is as if the culture of Argentinian soccer players is spreading like...
Greg Ward has won the backing of shareholders, but some want him to work on the financial services giant’s governance and regulatory oversight as a...
AI is driving the biggest capex boom in 235 years, creating a world where we see the Fed spin 180 degrees and raise rates twice in the coming months.
Shemara Wikramanayake has done a stellar job of growing earnings, but that has come at the expense of robust risk management and accountability.
The prime minister’s decision to attend a fundraising dinner at the $40 million harbourside mansion occupied by Felix Lee could be a serious lapse...
If the national conference delegates want an insight into the future of the Albanese style of economic management, they only need to check out the...
As go the arguments about the blockbuster movie, so go our conversations about fairness, gender, race and immigration. And so go our elections.
As a psychologist, what strikes me isn’t the ambition itself, it’s the anxiety that increasingly seems to accompany it.
Some ministers will host more than 40 meetings across the two-and-half day event, which at 15 minutes a pop is 10 hours of listening to lobbyists beg...
It’s time to admit homelessness is not about homes, but about complicated lives.
The One Nation leader isn’t in Adelaide, but the vibe at the ALP national conference is that her party is omnipresent.
The hacking incident raised concerns about more sophisticated cyberattacks, but it also meant Hugging Face opted to use a Chinese model to probe the...
There is no room for a Peronist-style flat tax on gas exports, but there is a place for a sensible discussion about what a fit-for-purpose gas...
The feed does lie to politicians and for some of them who lack understanding about how these platforms are engineered, the consequences can be career...
An unprompted AI agent just hacked a major platform. Australian businesses need to wake up to autonomous cyber risk.
General-purpose AI models are simply not very good at many tasks that require both domain and institutional knowledge. This might give employees...
Identifying in real time genuinely innovative early-stage companies that add to productivity and has broader spillover benefits is fraught with...
Nowhere in the 30 pages of the AMWU’s “blueprint for action” is a single demand costed. So HR Nicholls has done a line-by-line analysis. The...
We should be wary of the union push for Labor to impose strict limits on AI use at work. That would go against the general rule that the best form of...
The most experienced women across the workplace are redirecting their earning power, and inheritance, into their own ventures.
Xi Jinping’s vision for global AI co-operation reads as a form of neo-nonalignment – a means by which to circumvent US centrality.
Nifty refinancings buy time, but it’s difficult to trade out of them.
When half the population is directly threatened and poorly engaged, we cannot expect to make meaningful socio-economic gains.
Anthony Albanese and Andy Burnham want to improve the political system. But politicians, high on newfound power, have a habit of making promises they...
America cannot achieve its aims by negotiation and Iran’s missile strikes will become more intense in coming years. Regime change is back on the...
Project Sunrise is built around ultra-long-haul flying and avoids the risk of higher prices and weaker business case for adding continental European...
If the Fed dawdles, the risk is that market participants will judge Fed chairman Kevin Warsh’s tough talk as “all hat, no cattle”.